For teams leaving HubSpot
Tired of HubSpot eating your week?
What HubSpot users keep telling us
The CRM should help you sell. Not become the second job.
- Spent more hours configuring HubSpot than selling with it. Property maps, pipeline templates, role wiring — before a single deal moves.
- AI lives behind a higher tier. Breeze, the new agents, the better automations — each one a separate line item billed on top of seats.
- The free plan was the on-ramp. The renewal quote was the surprise. Contact-tier limits, marketing seats, operations seats, AI seats.
How FlowGrid is different
An AI canvas, included in every seat. Privacy as a database design decision, not a marketing claim.
Canvas, not config wizards
Describe the dashboard you want. It appears.
Most CRMs make you click through configuration menus to get a view that fits your work. FlowGrid uses a canvas you shape by talking to it. Type a prompt, get a widget. Iterate by talking, not by clicking.
No drag-and-drop puzzle, no setup wizard you abandon halfway through. Just a workspace that adjusts.
AI in every seat, not a separate tier
Nexus has 60+ tools bound to your schema.
Nexus isn’t a generic chat box pasted onto a CRM. It has tools wired into your contacts, deals, pipelines, and custom objects, so asking “show me deals closing this month grouped by owner” gets you a real widget — not a recipe to build one.
It’s sandboxed to your workspace. Every action is confirmed before it runs and logged in your audit trail.
Privacy as the default
Field-level encryption with keys only your tenant holds.
AES-256-GCM at the field level. Tenant-scoped keys managed in a KMS. Multi-tenant row-level isolation enforced at the Postgres layer, so cross-tenant reads aren’t a feature flag — they’re a database-level impossibility.
GDPR-compliant with a DPA your legal contact can pull right now. No ad pixels, no enrichment-network re-selling. Full security details are public, with the gaps named.
Side-by-side, no surprises
FlowGrid vs HubSpot, in plain language.
| Aspect | HubSpot | FlowGrid |
|---|---|---|
| First useful dashboard | Hours in setup wizards. Property maps, pipeline templates, role wiring before you've imported a single record. | Type a prompt. The dashboard appears. Iterate by talking, not by clicking through settings panels. |
| AI assistant | Breeze and a stack of AI add-ons. Most useful pieces sit behind a higher tier, billed on top of seats. | Nexus is the product, not a $50/month upsell. 60+ tools bound to your schema, included in every seat. |
| Pricing growth | Free tier as the start of an upsell ladder: contact-tier limits, marketing seats, "operations" seats, AI seats. | One plan, every feature, per-seat pricing. No tier ladders, no surprise add-ons mid-quarter. |
| Customising your CRM | Custom objects on enterprise plans. Workflow editor that takes a week to learn. Admin certifications recommended. | Custom objects, fields, and pipelines from day one. Prompt Nexus to add them; confirm before they ship. |
| Data privacy | "Enterprise-grade security" marketing copy. Tracking pixels and ad-network integrations layered into the platform. | Field-level AES-256-GCM encryption with tenant-scoped keys. No ad pixels. GDPR-compliant with a published DPA. |
| Your data on the way out | Exports gated by plan. Object types you customised may not round-trip cleanly. Cancellation flows aimed at saving the deal. | CSV export of every record, every field, on the trial and after. Tenant key means nobody else can read what you leave behind. |
Verifiable, not assumed
We’re early. Here’s how you can verify us anyway.
How your data is protected
Field-level AES-256-GCM encryption with tenant-scoped keys. Multi-tenant row-level isolation. Every mutation logged.
Read the security details →Legal & compliance
GDPR-compliant with a Data Processing Addendum. Your legal contact can pull it now — not after a sales call.
Read the DPA →Built in public
Built in public
We don’t have customer logos to show you yet.
FlowGrid is early. Instead of borrowed credibility, here’s what you can verify yourself:
Honest answers